“…Word spread across the southern farm country, and into the minds of those who labored over cotton or sugar crops, that the day of reckoning was near at hand, that the Lord had answered black prayers with the offer of deliverance in a western Eden. …”

“…Across species, humans have an unsurpassed capacity for creative thought and innovation. …”

“…"What drove American Catholics in their long and arduous quest, full of twists and turns across more than a century, to win an American-born saint? …”

“…The study is among the first to systematically examine the antecedents and consequences of risk behaviour from a comparative perspective over time and across countries. Matthias Richter presents findings from several empirical studies and extends current theoretical and empirical knowledge on adolescent risk behaviour. …”

“…Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This three-volume collection offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. …”

“…Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces have engaged with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. …”

“…However, due to a number of episodes and facts surrounding the Dictatorship period, such a plan for Portugal was implemented across the land through many and varied works and transformations, which certainly shaped the unmistakable images of the Salazarist Nation. …”

“…This case is not manifested in the same way across the country, albeit the underlying trend is common to the various rural and urban territories. …”

“…The essential contents of the book are 16 case studies provided in each of the chapters, comprehensively describing the authors' accomplishments of numerous teams from different countries across the world in advanced research areas relating to the biomaterials applied in regenerative medicine and dentistry. …”

“…This collection tracks provocative ideas, artifacts, and phenomena rising and fading across different territories of the contemporary world. …”

“…In particular, it explores the appeals to concepts of parliamentarism, deliberative decision making, and constitutionalism; historical practices related to parliamentarism; and political mythologies across Eurasia. It focuses on the historical and "re-established" institutions of decision-making which consciously hark back to indigenous traditions and adapt them to the changing circumstances in imperial and post-imperial contexts. …”

“…The study identifies some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities-including effective programs, practices, and policies-that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys and men of color…”

“…This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean. Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. …”

“…Fish Pathology is the definitive, classic and essential book on the subject, providing in-depth coverage across all major aspects of fish pathology. This new, fully updated and expanded fourth edition builds upon the success of the previous editions which have made Fish Pathology the best known and most respected book in the field, worldwide.Commencing with a chapter covering the aquatic environment, the book provides comprehensive details of the anatomy and physiology of teleosts, pathophysiology and systematic physiology, immunology, neoplasia, virology, parasitology, bacterio…”

“…Educating Informal Educators’’ draws on the range of expertise in Higher Education courses across the UK and seeks to emphasise the value of informal education and its values and practices, not only for students of education or informal education but also for society as a whole. …”

“…Except for latitudinal and elevational extremes, lizards range across a vast variety of biotopes worldwide, including environments as disparate as deserts, prairies, temperate woodlands, rainforests, or anthropic habitats. …”

“…The book collects scientific contributions aiming at describing the common mechanism, across living species, by which innate immunity interacts with nanomaterials with the goal of harnessing such interactions for improving environmental and human safety and exploiting them for modulating immunity in vaccination strategies…”

“…This book brings together in one resource Information security across multiple domains. Information Security Handbook addresses the knowledge for emerging multidisciplinary research. …”

“…As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world…”

“…It offers unique insights into the challenges, practices and policies of hydropower developments across 8 European countries, providing examples from on-site studies and European-wide analyses. …”